Karachi: Rangers recovers 8 from Lyari torture cell

KARACHI: The Rangers authorities Saturday night claimed to have recovered at least eight abductees after a pinpoint raid in a restive gangster stronghold here, Geo News reported.

According to officials, when paramilitary troops barged into a suspected gangster den, namely Dubai House, in the limits of Lyari’s Chakiwara area, they discovered some eight men shackled to the walls of an alleged torture cell. They were unchained and pulled through by the lawmen, officials added.

Meanwhile families of the abductees, told Geo News that the recovered men were junkies who they themselves had restrained this way to break their drug addiction.

They relatives also added that these hopheads had gone to the extent of selling the family belongings to get a narcotic high.

“We could find no other way but this to keep them off the streets and away from drugs”, they added.

The family members, most of them women, staged a demonstration against the operation in front of Rangers Headquarters demanding immediate release of the men recovered.